First a quote with the good news.
In U.S. adults, levels of fatty substances in the blood have continued to fall over the past few years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Levels of total cholesterol, triglycerides and “bad” LDL cholesterol fell between 1999 and 2010 among U.S....
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For as long people today can remember, testosterone has been thoroughly demonized. It has been blamed for everything from bad behavior to prostate cancer.
Yes, they blamed cancer on it.
Officially.
As in, testosterone is officially considered a cause of cancer.
And now, a revolution, courtesy of The Sun...
A new study is out from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, saying that while it is well known that doing some exercise during the day is beneficial both for your health and for your overall wellbeing, it is in fact more efficient to spread out the exercise over...
Heartburn is a big problem in the US. In fact, CNN reports that PPI’s (proton pump inhibitors, which are used to treat acid reflux and heartburn) are among the most prescribed drugs in the country, with millions taking them, and becoming more widely available over-the-counter as time goes on.
But a...
Yeah, about that whole ‘drinking will kill you’ thing…
Turns out that it’s more likely to save you from heart disease.
A new study from Menzies Institute for Medical Research at the University of Tasmania has finally stated what we always knew, drinking is good for your heart. Though it is addictive...
A new medical device from St. Jude medical center is showing a great deal of improvement over its predecessor. The old device, the Heartmate II has shown a bit of a problem when it comes to getting clogged by blood that is supposed to be pumped into the main arteries....
Over the past forty years we have undergone vast improvements with regards to cancer treatments. The amount of chemo we use has gone down dramatically, and the other forms of radiation that we use as well. However, we still have not been able to reduce the amount overall deterioration that...
A team of scientists working at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf – UKE in Germany have run a test to say if a new technique to get a body to accept and adapt tissue will have any effect, and it seems that it has.
One of the greatest harms caused by...
A clinic in Ohio, the famed Cleveland Clinic has a branch called the Women’s Cardiovascular Center, and it is run by a doctor Leslie Cho. Said doctor has long felt that the treadmill stress tests results were misleading for women, who get stressed out from exercise faster than men, and...
A new study out of Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, show that heart attacks are primarily caused by heavy physical exertion combined with strong negative emotions, as opposed to unhealthy or weak hearts, those issues cause their own set of problems.
The study, comprising of more...
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